Sunday, August 18, 2013

What Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli say,
to whom and how they say it, speaks to the direction of the
gubernatorial campaign. Some of it is noise. A lot is dog-whistle
politics: shrill, high-frequency babble tailored to the ears of targeted
voters.

All the negativity hasn't been lost on Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling who wrote on Facebook:

Jeff Schapiro does a pretty good job capturing
the essence of this year's gubernatorial campaign, which is
characterized by way too much negativity and way too little substance. I
still believe the candidate who can project a positive message in the
final weeks of the campaign is the candidate who will win.